Because the leftists at the NYT don't like federalism. They want centralized government, relegating the states to little more than administrative units of the federal government. Nobody in America votes for the President. We all vote for electors representing our respective states, which is exactly as it should be.

66 posted on 08/29/2004 12:20:27 AM PDT by Bonaparte
(the lyric said forevermore, forevermore's a memory...)